Public Safety

Shallotte police charged the following people and investigated the following incidents last week. All information is taken directly from police reports.

•Ester Virginia Todd, 24, of 2276 Shell Point Road, was charged with assault on a handicapped person. Someone called the police department to let them know a woman in the Walmart parking lot had a warrant for her arrest. The responding officer found Todd was wanted on an outstanding warrant for assault on a handicapped person.

•Assault on a female on Brooks Court; suspect struck victim in the face.

A California man drowned off the coast of Holden Beach last Friday, June 25.

According to Holden Beach Police Chief Wally Layne, Raymond Joseph Dracker, 55, of San Rafael, Calif., drowned Friday morning when his kayak was overtaken by waves in the Lockwood Folly Inlet off the east end of Holden Beach.

“His family member lost contact with him and subsequently located an empty kayak,” Layne said.

Holden Beach Police investigated the following incidents and charged the following suspects June 15-22.

•Douglas Wayne Piver, 47, of Midway Road, Whiteville, was arrested and charged with felony assault on a law enforcement officer with a firearm, resisting a law enforcement officer, fleeing to elude arrest, reckless driving, driving while license revoked and driving while impaired on June 16.

•Larceny of fishing equipment was reported June 17 on Ocean Boulevard West.

Someone apparently shot a utility trailer multiple times with a BB gun, shooting holes through the roof and denting the sides.

On June 17, police also charged Natasha Edwina Farroba, 44, of Calabash, with driving while impaired and having no insurance. She was stopped on Sunset Boulevard and taken to Brunswick County Detention Center.

Agents with the Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office Drug Enforcement Unit arrested two suspects after community complaints in the Seaside Road area of Sunset Beach.

According to Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Sgt. April Stanley, drug agents answered community complaints at 210 Seaside Road, Sunset Beach, on June 15. Drug agents searched the home and seized about 25 grams of marijuana, marijuana plants, diverted prescription pills and drug paraphernalia from the home.